 As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more. |
| I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it. |
| What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live. |
| I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop. |
| I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons. |
| In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis. |
| A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. |
| The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. |
| Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience. |
| It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go. |
| It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. |
| The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. |
| For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. |
| You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe. |
| Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again. |
| I was actually going to law school in 1972. |
| Because running fast is more fun than running slow. |
| To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat. |
| When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves. |
| My goal is to break three hours in a marathon. |
